NBA Star’s “Stupid A**” Reaction to Dangerous Encounter Leaves Shaquille O’Neal Questioning Roots

If you think Shaq-lore is crazy, Lemon Pepper Lou has him beat. It wasn’t only turning the NBA Bubble incident into a signature dish or witnessing the intensity of the Mamba Mentality. A story about Lou Williams’ near-scary incident having a wholesome plot twist that makes people do a double take. Shaquille O’Neal had the 3x NBA 6MOTY on The Big Podcast to get firsthand accounts of every crazy Lou story. Shaq got out the story of “The time Lou Will almost got his carjacked” on the podcast that ended in a trip to McDonald’s.

Everyone has a fight-or-flight instinct. But Williams was complaining about his own stupidity while narrating it to Shaq. “I was in Philly. The crazy thing about this is my security was actually with me; he was in the car behind me. I was leaving the barber shop, I looked down on my phone and I just heard ‘Tick, tick, tick,’ like somebody tapped on my window, and I just look up, and he’s like [Williams mimes holding a gun], ‘Get out of the car.’ My stupid a** rolled the window down. I gave him a better shot.”

Williams’ overwhelmingly polite response even had Shaq scoff and fellow guest, Bill Bellamy sputter, “Excuse me?” Shaq just had to ask, “Goddamn Man, you from the suburbs?” We don’t know what kind of environment Williams had growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, and later in Atlanta, Georgia, but even he knows his priorities were off in the face of a firearm-wielding carjacker. Even Bellamy imitated if he was trying to politely ask, “Are you in need of some assistance,” to a carjacker.

However, giving a clear view of his face saved his life. “But actually that’s that’s the best thing I could’ve did. Because when I rolled the window down, we looked at each other. And he said, ‘Lou Wil? [carjacker clicked his tongue] can’t even do it to you, bruh!'” 

While Bellamy was in splits, Shaq asked in disbelief, “For real?” All Williams said was, “True story.” But this story didn’t end there.

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Kindness gives Lou Williams street cred

This incident went down in his neighborhood in Manayunk on Christmas Eve in 2011. Williams’ niceties didn’t end at just courteously opening the window and giving a stranger the time of the day. He took the chance to help the carjacker.

“He’s a Lou Williams fan, so he didn’t rob me,” Williams told the local media in 2011. Lou claimed that he did debate about driving off or helping him. “He did all the talking and we came up with a solution before I could really say much. I treated him to McDonald’s.” He apparently prevented his security from intervening too. He paid for the stranger’s holiday meal and wished him luck on the way out.

It’s unknown what happened to the assailant but there are no reports of police involvement. It appears Williams did a kind act and didn’t turn the carjacker in.

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